3 months ago
Cork, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement mission-critical observability platform components for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resiliency.
- Develop observability improvements that help engineers and customers diagnose production issues.
- Own critical code areas and maintain high standards for security, durability, availability, performance, quality, and maintainability.
- Write and improve production-ready database code, diagnose failures and bugs, and prevent regressions through testing and code quality practices.
- Handle customer escalations, collaborate with support engineers, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Lead development and project management for large cross-company initiatives.
- Collaborate with engineering, Product Management, and leadership on technical direction, product roadmaps, dependencies, and complexity.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code, interview advanced software engineering candidates, and contribute to long-term technical strategy.
- Maintain expertise in database and observability developments from industry and academia.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed or highly concurrent mission-critical software systems.
- Expert-level programming ability with experience in C, C++, Java, or Rust.
- Experience operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems.
- Strong systems fundamentals, including multithreaded programming and performance profiling.
- Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data-processing systems.
- Familiarity with the observability ecosystem and best practices.
- Excellent technical communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
- Experience or understanding of information security management.
- Indexing or database performance-tuning experience is a nice-to-have.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model for candidates based in Cork.
- Employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and generous parental leave policy.
- Accommodations are available during the application and interview process for individuals with disabilities.
About MongoDB
MongoDB builds the MongoDB document database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database service for application developers and enterprises. Its business model centers on cloud consumption (Atlas), commercial subscriptions, and support, with tooling for migration, synchronization, and disaster recovery across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ and widely used across industries worldwide.